Unit 7

Question 1

african city model

Answer 1

a model of urban structure that states many African cities have three CBDs (traditional, colonial, and market) because of their history of colonialism. outdated and many cities to do reflect this, but can still be seen in some.

Question 2

southeast asian city model

Answer 2

a model of urban structure that states cities in southeast asia are centered around a port instead of a CBD due to colonial history in exporting

Question 3

basic industry

Answer 3

good/services designed for people outside the city (car factory, tech support, airports)

Question 4

non basic industry

Answer 4

goods/services designed for city residents (restaurants, grocery stores)

Question 5

blockbusting

Answer 5

when real estate industries would encourage white people to sell their house for cheap (by telling them that the prices would drop when black families moved in), and then resell those houses for more money to black families

Question 6

CBD

Answer 6

central business district, where a large amount of business is located

Question 7

central place theory

Answer 7

describes where a business would located themselves within a city based on the type of produce/service

Question 8

concentric zone model

Answer 8

has 5 rings showing how land is used, with the more expensive homes being on the outer rings and the cheaper homes and industrial parts located in the inner rigns

Question 9

edge city

Answer 9

a concentration of business that develops in the suburbs outside a city’s traditional CBD

Question 10

favelas

Answer 10

a type of slum in brazil that are the result of urban sprawl

Question 11

filtering / filter process

Answer 11

the process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner to abandonment

Question 12

galactic city model / peripheral model

Answer 12

explains how suburbanization and better transportation resulted in edge cities being created, with highways systems being built in between them

Question 13

gentrification

Answer 13

when richer people or business buy an abandoned piece of land and renovate it

Question 14

greenbelts

Answer 14

an area of green land (such as a park or forest) around a city to prevent sprawl

Question 15

hierarchy of services

Answer 15

explains how there are low order services (salons, gas, fast food) that are more common and high order services (museums, festivals, high-end fashion) that are rarer

Question 16

hierarchy of settlements

Answer 16

the order in settlements according to population and business

hamlet > village >town > city > megapolis

Question 17

hinterland

Answer 17

the area around a city that travels to the city for certain services

Question 18

infrastructure

Answer 18

the basic support systems that a city needs to survive (transportation, water, power, hospitals, school systems)

Question 19

latin america city model

Answer 19

similar to sector and concentric models, but has a spine that goes from the CBD to a secondary urban center called the mall

Question 20

megacity

Answer 20

a city with 10 mil+ people

Question 21

metacity

Answer 21

a city with 20 mil + people

Question 22

multiple nuclei model

Answer 22

a city structure model that describes how there are multiple nodes that form, instead of everything being centered around the CBD

Question 23

new urbanism

Answer 23

the belief in limiting city expansion and preserving nature

Question 24

primate city

Answer 24

the biggest city in a country that is significantly biggest than the next biggest city, usually due to that city taking the most economic priority in the past (ex: Paris, London, Budapest)

Question 25

range

Answer 25

how far people are willing to travel in order to get to a good/service

Question 26

rank-size rule

Answer 26

the idea that the population of a settlement with be inversely proportional to it’s rank in the urban hierarchy

Question 27

redlining

Answer 27

a form of housing discrimination where places with predominately black households were labeled as “poorly developed,” and so banks would refuse to give home loans to them

Question 28

squatter settlement

Answer 28

housing illegally established and roughly constructed

Question 29

sector model

Answer 29

uses different sectors or wedges that expand out from the CBD, rather than rings

Question 30

urban sprawl

Answer 30

when a city expands without any planning. leads to shantytowns and slums, poor infrastructure, and an increased use of pollution

Question 31

threshold

Answer 31

how many people are needed to support a business

Question 32

urban renewnal

Answer 32

federal government grants that allow abandoned plots of land to be redeveloped or modernized

Question 33

world/global city

Answer 33

a city that is a major control center of the global economy (LA, Singapore, Sydney)

Question 34

zone-in transition

Answer 34

an area in models of urban structure where there is a mix of industry and low income housing

Question 35

zoning

Answer 35

an area that is marked specifically for development of a type of building (residential, industry, commercial, etc.)